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Oval is the name for German electronic music artist Marcus Poppe. His music is most well known for its implementation of the sound of marred and scratched Compact Discs. In many songs, the sound artifacts that result from these scratched discs are looped and manipulated to form a rhythm. On top of these rhythms are ambient melodies and other noises. Recommended album: "Systemisch".

Oval has released albums on the famous avant-garde german electronic label Mille Plateaux, and on Thrill Jockey in the United States. His LP discography includes:

Cassinian ovalGeom., the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed points is constant; -- so called from Cassini, who first investigated the curve. Thus, in the diagram, if P moves so that P A.P B is constant, the point P describes a Cassinian oval. The locus may consist of a single closed line, as shown by the dotted line, or of two equal ovals about the points A and B.